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I agree with Jim - perhaps you should make some really really huge jugs, for garden use :)

Been thinking a lot about flower pots and garden pots, and pottery as a business. I wonder whether it'd be possible to compete here - at least selling from your own gate, as it were. So, flower pots, fired as quickly as possible to stoneware temperatures - cone 9 say - oxidised but throw some ash in - get some flashing - maybe some glazed but probably not. I wonder how cheap you could go and pay for materials and some kind of wage (even if minimum.) Interesting.

I'm with Hannah. Charge more. As to pottery being a business ... people ask me if I make my living making pots. I tell them that I make my life making pots. Making a living is an entirely different thing.

Yes, I agree with them all too Paul, your pots are worth much more than that.

I used to work for a flowerpot makers when I left college in the mid eighties and cheap imported pots killed it off. I think the only way to mke money from flowerpots over here these days is to make something completely different and unique. Jim Keeling seems to be able to do it. Some of the stuff that used to come in from abroad was beautiful, from cultures that still had the skills available from their folk heritage, Spain and Portugal.

The Italians invested a huge amount of money in ram presses and would take clay straight from their pits and force it into moulds. The pots looked dead, but nobody really cared because they were cheap. The company I worked for just ended up importing stuff in the end because it was impossible to compete.

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30 years ago I was a full time potter full of the joys of spring and loving every minute of it. I want to feel that again so at the age of 46 i'm working on it. "I have a Plan". It's time I need to find now. I've just hit 54 this year and this is the Journey so far.